Although today, Milwaukee is the city of the Brewers, the Bucks and beer, the city was once known instead as a city of "bullets, blood, and beer," thanks to its mafia entanglements. We'll get the hidden history of Milwaukee's past relationship with organized crime.

A federal agency has cleared the way for the sale of a new kind of alcohol in the United States: powdered alcohol. Meant to be dissolved in water, the powder has been raising safety concerns, and a handful of states, including Wisconsin, are looking to ban it altogether. The lawmaker...

State lawmakers have introduced a bill to ban the sale of a new kind of powdered alcohol that they fear would appeal to young people and exacerbate Wisconsin’s drinking problem . The new product, known as “ Palcohol ,” comes in packets and is added to water to make mixed...

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told WisconsinEye on Thursday that $300 million in cuts to the University of Wisconsin System are deeper than what he'd like to see over the next two years. He also expressed skepticism over the proposal to grant the UW more autonomy through a new public authority.

After several days of protests sparked by the police shooting of an unarmed Madison man, law enforcement officers and their supporters turned out at the state Capitol, holding signs and making speeches praising the city's police force.

The Justice Department is looking to file corruption charges against a U.S. Senator, and Hillary Clinton’s email practices are still under scrutiny. Plus, Secretary of State John Kerry is asking the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to consider updating the Military Use of Force Authorization, and 47 Senate Republicans attempts to...

With protests continuing over the shooting death of a 19-year-old, mixed-race Madison man by a white police officer, Gov. Scott Walker sat down with a leader of the city's black community to discuss the case and issues faced by black youth in the state.

A new study found that African-American girls are six times more likely to be suspended than white girls and are subject to harsher and more frequent discipline than their white peers. Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, law professor at Columbia University and UCLA, authored the study, “ Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out,...

A new music festival showcasing local and national bands is coming to Wisconsin’s Chippewa Valley this summer, and so far, it’s shaping up to be unlike anything the region has ever seen. Announced earlier this year, the first-ever Eaux Claires musical festival will take place in Eau Claire in July...

The lawsuit filed by three Wisconsin labor organizations challenging the recently passed right-to-work law faces an uphill battle and will likely not succeed, according to a Marquette University professor. “I think that the leaders of the unions understand that they’re fighting an uphill battle because similar lawsuits have been brought...

A significant change to the system providing long-term care to Wisconsin's reported 50,000 elderly or disabled residents is one of many items in Gov. Scott Walker's proposed 2015 biennial budget. The proposal includes contracting with larger insurers, which impacts more than $2 billion a year in spending, and would replace...